confessar

From Ecclesiastical Latin confessō.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.fəˈsa/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.fəˈsa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.feˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

confessar (first-person singular present confesso, past participle confessat)

1. to confess

• confessió

• “confessar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Ecclesiastical Latin confessō.

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confessar

1. to confess

• confession

• cõfessar (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Portuguese confessar, from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”) (possibly an inheritance), a derivative of Latin confessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).

• Hyphenation: con‧fes‧sar

confessar (first-person singular present confesso, first-person singular preterite confessei, past participle confessado)

1. (transitive) to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad)

   Synonym: admitir

2. (religion, transitive or intransitive) to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman)
3. (religion, transitive) to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
4. (chiefly religion, transitive) to confess; to follow (to have a given religion or set of beliefs)

   Synonym: seguir

• confessor
• confissão
• confissionário